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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

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The ~~first~~ Lemmy-as-a-blog instance (lemmyverse.link)
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[–] kernelle@0d.gs 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I left a comment on your server but it doesn't seem to be federating so I'll leave it here as well! original comment

Terribly sorry about nerd sniping you! I'm the owner of martijn.sh, and I'm guessing it was only a matter of time. We're solving the same problem in a completely different way though, so I'll definitely be following your progress and might use it for my lemmy instance as well.

The only difficulty I've found is when federating our small instances to lemmy. Your community only federates with other servers if at least one user on that instance is subscribed to it. An easy way to fast track federation is using lemmy-federate. If you register your instance and your community, an army of bots will automatically subscribe to your community making it available on many more instances at once. The only reason your server now federates with mine is because I searched for it manually and subscribed that way.

Anyway, best of luck on your blog. If you've questions or want to discuss, feel free to send me a message!

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I left a comment on your server but it doesn't seem to be federating

Oh, no ! I'll have to look into that, thank you for noticing ! Any ideas how to debug that ?

Terribly sorry about nerd sniping you!

No problem haha, I've been wanting this for a while already ^^

An easy way to fast track federation is using lemmy-federate.

Interesting !

Anyway, best of luck on your blog. If you’ve questions or want to discuss, feel free to send me a message!

Thanks again !

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 1 points 23 hours ago

Lemmy's docs show how to increase the verbosity of your logs, taking a look at them could point to possibly issues.

Compare https://blog.kaki87.net/api/v3/federated_instances with https://jlai.lu/api/v3/federated_instances and I don't think your server is federating properly. This graph of instance health shows federation stopped around 20/06.

Since then, your new posts have federated to for example my server and lemmy.world, but 2 new posts from the last week did not make it to my server.

I tried voting on this post with lemmy.world and the same post with 0d.gs which do not seem to federate but are visible on their respective servers.

The strange thing is, in my Lemmy back-end, everything seems normal, and your server is telling mine it's receiving correctly, but we can see it is not.

[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Using Lemmy as a blog is an interesting idea, because it allows to distribute your posts to other users timelines easily, but does it do well in terms of cost of self hosting? How much more computational work does enabling federation require?

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have no idea, the documentation didn't even warn there would be any.

I'll keep you updated if I end up having any performance issues.